Old-Fashioned Soft Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sifted flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. soft butter
1/2 c. buttermilk or sour milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. sugar
1 egg yolk
1 egg white

Preparation

Sift together first 3 ingredients.
Mix butter, sugar and egg yolk until fluffy.
Mix in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk; then mix in vanilla.
Fold in egg white, beaten stiff. Drop by tablespoonfuls 3 inches apart onto greased cookie sheet. Flatten with spatula to 1/2 inch thickness.
Bake until golden brown in 350\u00b0 oven about 15 minutes.
Yields 18 cookies.